Today, the Fair Arbitration Now Coalition – a group of civil rights and other groups working to defend the ability of consumers, workers, minorities, and the elderly, among others, to obtain access to justice – are marking “Arbitration Fairness Day,” aimed at raising awareness of the abuses of mandatory arbitration.

There is a really dumb version of the judicial doctrine of “originalism” that goes something like this: “If the Framers didn’t imagine something happening at the time of the original drafting of the Constitution, then addressing that thing must be unconstitutional.” (CAC’s better method for preserving constitutional accountability is explained here.)

Today is the 89th birthday of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. History will remember Justice Stevens as one of our greatest Supreme Court justices, in large part for the work he has done in the past decade. Justice Stevens personifies the argument against term limits and for life tenure.

The Supreme Court will hear argument on Wednesday in Ricci v. DeStefano, a case brought by a group of firefighters in New Haven, Connecticut, challenging the City’s decision not to use the results of a promotion exam because the City was concerned, based on the results, that the test was unfair to minority candidates.

Any day now, the Supreme Court could hand down its ruling in Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal, a case asking whether whether the 14th Amendment’s Due Process Clause required West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Brent Benjamin to recuse himself from hearing a case involving a litigant who had made substantial contributions to his state election campaign.